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Re: Dangote Refinery, Engineers On Warpath Over Fresh Redeployment (Photo) by elipheleh(m): 11:45am On Oct 09, 2025
Sirleo05:
This employees are highly ungrateful. I mean, who should you be loyal to, the person that employ you or an outsider?
Is the outsider paying your Bill's?
Cam an employee be dictating to the employer?
Grateful for what? To who? To the company that lies against their own employees. Let him tell us the sabotage they committed.

If he doesnt want somebody again. He should just go straight and say so. Then terminate the appointments. Its not by force.

No need lying against your workers.

He has luck this is Nigeria. In abroad he for settle those workers by millions as compensation.

You don't just break an agreement anytime you like. You must pay them off heavily

He is lucky it is not abroad.
Him for pay millions in law suite
Re: Dangote Refinery, Engineers On Warpath Over Fresh Redeployment (Photo) by elipheleh(m): 11:48am On Oct 09, 2025
pharmagba:
Very foolish set of workers.
What benefits do they want from PENGASSAN rather than to sabotage their organisation, Dangote which is paying them good.
Had it been the issue is joining a professional body, then we may have an argument but PENGASSAN? It a no no!

Please go to the Sugar and cement factory.
Ignorance is a disease. You that is talking. You no dey your School Alumni whatsapp group? You no dey your family whatsapp group? Are those ones Professional bodies too?
Re: Dangote Refinery, Engineers On Warpath Over Fresh Redeployment (Photo) by emmy4real94(m): 11:48am On Oct 09, 2025
ccollins:
That salary is too poor for a petro engineer working at dangote refinery. a multinational refinery that trades in dollars paying its staff a paltry sum of 400,000 naira. too poor
The employment date on that payslip is 2023 which is less or about 2years…
The employees sacked had been employed around 2021 to 2022 and sent abroad for training ..
this slip is not for them…
Hope u know Dangote payed them salaries while studying and also sponsored them abroad
Re: Dangote Refinery, Engineers On Warpath Over Fresh Redeployment (Photo) by Curious345: 11:55am On Oct 09, 2025
Dangote please play them Maradona . They're engrates
Re: Dangote Refinery, Engineers On Warpath Over Fresh Redeployment (Photo) by kenex4ever(m): 12:01pm On Oct 09, 2025
Gotocourt:
How can PAYE be morethan PENSIONS, I just can't wrap my head around it 🤷🏿


Someone that knows some of them should kindly advise them to Japa. Use the company gained experience as a stepping stone
Payee is usually more than pension for companies that pay meager salary like dangote.

Working in refinery while earning like someone Working in a sugar plant
Re: Dangote Refinery, Engineers On Warpath Over Fresh Redeployment (Photo) by adekolaelect(m): 12:24pm On Oct 09, 2025
iceking4:
Stop using emotions to think, sometimes be objective!...

You sack all Nigerian Engineers in a single day with the term "sabotage". The company cannot still explain the type of sabotage and how it involves all the Nigerian nations. Some of you make all this comments because of political affiliations. I have friends there with family that are greatly affected by this without even knowing the crime the committed. Some of them did not even join the union, but they were sacked.

"We cannot sabotage the refinery. We love the refinery. Some of us built it from the beginning. How can we sabotage what we built? It is not possible. We’ve been very committed, and we were doing everything to ensure the success of the plant for the good of all Nigerians." So you want Dangote to risk his investment to go down simply BCS your friend and his family need to survive on his company? Why are you poeple reason like this? Dangotes must get incomes for him to pay his workers. Dangote is not NNPC that always gets funds from government upon non productivity of the NNPC. Oga You can establish your own company and employ based on your sentimental feelings for him and others. If you establish your own company allow your staffs to join unions that will not allow you to have control over your workers and see how successful your company will be.
Re: Dangote Refinery, Engineers On Warpath Over Fresh Redeployment (Photo) by Ashirioluwa: 12:55pm On Oct 09, 2025
Gotocourt:
How can PAYE be morethan PENSIONS, I just can't wrap my head around it 🤷🏿


Someone that knows some of them should kindly advise them to Japa. Use the company gained experience as a stepping stone
The PAYE in this situation exceeds the pension because the employee chooses to make the minimum contribution of 8%.

Workers can increase their pension contributions, but keep in mind that doing so will also have an impact on their take-home pay, which means their net salary will decrease.
Re: Dangote Refinery, Engineers On Warpath Over Fresh Redeployment (Photo) by Guestmale: 1:00pm On Oct 09, 2025
U09ce:
Up till now, the Dangote Refinery has not told Nigerians the 'sabotage' 800 Nigerians did. If people want to commit such a criminal act, why would they need up to 800 people? These guys are just been victimized and unfortunately even the custodians of the Nigerian laws have shoved them aside.
The problem is joining pengasan, though they have the right to join and associate with any legal union. But first the workers should know that this is a private entity, secondly the refinery is still very new and yet to have proper grounding therefore joining a union that will support them in demanding for outrageous incentives and rights,to the refinery is a sabotage to them,I want to believe.
Re: Dangote Refinery, Engineers On Warpath Over Fresh Redeployment (Photo) by frog12: 1:05pm On Oct 09, 2025
It was stated that Indian nationals were the only ones operating the refinery at the moment, as all Nigerian engineers were sent away for joining the union. “At the moment, only Indians are running the refinery. All Nigerian engineers were sacked because we joined PENGASSAN,“ they alleged.
the man and his company are known liars. and very unpatriotic.

how can you give nigerian jobs to indian nationals?
Re: Dangote Refinery, Engineers On Warpath Over Fresh Redeployment (Photo) by iceking4(m): 1:05pm On Oct 09, 2025
[quote author=adekolaelect post=137066506][/quote]Now you're lying on behave of the company, the company said they're not against staffs joining the union. The insisted it's because of sabotage.
Can you please tell Nigerians how 800+ workers decided to sabotage a company many of them built overnight huh
Dangote himself came to the media and praised them to be better staffs than the Indians, how comes they became saboteurs few days later.


This is the last time I will reply all you paid actors! Continue what you're doing, but just remember life is like a swinging pendulum ball.
Cheers
Re: Dangote Refinery, Engineers On Warpath Over Fresh Redeployment (Photo) by justtoodark: 1:21pm On Oct 09, 2025
typical nigerians....
scrambling for the money as usual....

make una no break down the biggest company in nigeria because of endless greed....
Re: Dangote Refinery, Engineers On Warpath Over Fresh Redeployment (Photo) by Maxymilliano(op): 1:22pm On Oct 09, 2025
emmy4real94:
The employment date on that payslip is 2023 which is less or about 2years…
The employees sacked had been employed around 2021 to 2022 and sent abroad for training ..
this slip is not for them…
Hope u know Dangote payed them salaries while studying and also sponsored them abroad
2023 was date of joining ...
Re: Dangote Refinery, Engineers On Warpath Over Fresh Redeployment (Photo) by Babalegba(m): 1:32pm On Oct 09, 2025
ccollins:
That salary is too poor for a petro engineer working at dangote refinery. a multinational refinery that trades in dollars paying its staff a paltry sum of 400,000 naira. too poor
Greedy fellow like most Nigerians. Someone borrowed money to build something that pengassan and the federal government could not build in forty years. People now want to destroy the factory because of greed.
I wonder why Dangote has not sacked all Nigerian engineers there and replace them with other nationalities with better work ethics
Re: Dangote Refinery, Engineers On Warpath Over Fresh Redeployment (Photo) by ZombieDredd: 1:39pm On Oct 09, 2025
osuofia2:
Why not employ them and pay them more BI IT IS FORBIDEN TO EMPLOY PEOPLR
you cant write in english?
Re: Dangote Refinery, Engineers On Warpath Over Fresh Redeployment (Photo) by MICHEALADEX(m): 2:10pm On Oct 09, 2025
princeade86:
Season two of the film about to start because I don't think those people will agree.
Let them go there and jump fence you sure know it's in hell they will continue their aluta
Re: Dangote Refinery, Engineers On Warpath Over Fresh Redeployment (Photo) by obitrac: 2:20pm On Oct 09, 2025
Babalegba:
Greedy fellow like most Nigerians. Someone borrowed money to build something that pengassan and the federal government could not build in forty years. People now want to destroy the factory because of greed.
I wonder why Dangote has not sacked all Nigerian engineers there and replace them with other nationalities with better work ethics
can you imagine what a fellow Nigerian is saying.can we call this jealousy or wickedness
Re: Dangote Refinery, Engineers On Warpath Over Fresh Redeployment (Photo) by Franklyspeakin: 2:21pm On Oct 09, 2025
did you see the grade level and rank of the owner of that pay slip? so how then do you conclude that it was the pay of a petrochemical engineer??
ccollins:
That salary is too poor for a petro engineer working at dangote refinery. a multinational refinery that trades in dollars paying its staff a paltry sum of 400,000 naira. too poor
Re: Dangote Refinery, Engineers On Warpath Over Fresh Redeployment (Photo) by frog12: 2:32pm On Oct 09, 2025
you no see june 2025 for payslip?

paid actor


emmy4real94:
The employment date on that payslip is 2023 which is less or about 2years…
The employees sacked had been employed around 2021 to 2022 and sent abroad for training ..
this slip is not for them…
Hope u know Dangote payed them salaries while studying and also sponsored them abroad
Re: Dangote Refinery, Engineers On Warpath Over Fresh Redeployment (Photo) by cr7lomo: 4:07pm On Oct 09, 2025
billyG:
They also has d right to join union,how I wish d new set he employs also join union let see if he will continue to sack & sack.I use to support the refinery action but when I saw that guy payslip my blood come they boil...for this Tinubueconomy fa!
Join union in a private firm , when it's not government work .... where dat one de happen??
Re: Dangote Refinery, Engineers On Warpath Over Fresh Redeployment (Photo) by yemre: 5:20pm On Oct 09, 2025
iceking4:
So he built it completely without the help of Nigeria and Nigerians huh

Is this a pay back to the hospitality Nigeria has given him ?
Those that helped him to build, were they not paid for their services? Did they work for free? You claim Nigeria gave him hospitality as if he's a foreigner! I wonder what you would have done if he was a foreigner.

If he has not been magnanimous enough by employing Nigerians and paying them well (which has been used to teach him a lesson by their recent behavior), I don't know what else you want him to do.

You want to control how he runs his refinery through the back door at all cost? No way.

He's actually a very smart investor and the recent events has made him wiser.

I am not even a northerner or from his part of the country. But, for crying out loud, Dangote is one of the few people that has brought real industrialization and development to this country and a responsible employer of labour. Yet, all you want is to shut him down!

What is bad is bad.

Just the disruption caused by that singular act is already telling on Nigerians in terms of availability of cooking gas. Many homes aren't able to cook for their children and families, even those in the business of restaurants and catering services are losing businesses and having it difficult to operate! But that's not a lesson for you.

Continue!
Re: Dangote Refinery, Engineers On Warpath Over Fresh Redeployment (Photo) by Iamzik: 5:23pm On Oct 09, 2025
Nwaikpe:
Let us get it straight:

Dangote will not win this.
No one can fight the constitution and win.

Unlike what the vice president ignorantly said, Dangote is an individual, not an institution. His organization is an institution that must abide by the laws of the country.

It is clear: no one can be victimized for their enshrined right to associate and be a part of any lawful group they so wish to. That is why it is good to listen to your lawyer if you employ one rather than teach the lawyer when you employ them.

I will fire any employees that join forces with whatever union to sabotage my company operations. There is no emotion here
Re: Dangote Refinery, Engineers On Warpath Over Fresh Redeployment (Photo) by Iamzik: 5:28pm On Oct 09, 2025
frog12:
the man and his company are known liars. and very unpatriotic.

how can you give nigerian jobs to indian nationals?
If Nigerian workers choose to be foolish and join a devilish union to sabotage my company I will sack them in a heartbeat. Sorry but there is no emotion here. If I have to employ foreigners to replace them I will do just that
Re: Dangote Refinery, Engineers On Warpath Over Fresh Redeployment (Photo) by iceking4(m): 5:29pm On Oct 09, 2025
yemre:
If he has not been magnanimous enough by employing Nigerians and paying them well (which has been used to teach him a lesson by their recent behavior), I don't know what else you want him to do.

You want to control how he runs his refinery through the back door at all cost? No way.

He's actually a very smart investor and the recent events has made him wiser.

I am not even a northerner or from his part of the country. But, for crying out loud, Dangote is one of the few people that has brought real industrialization and development to this country and a responsible employer of labour. Yet, all you want is to shut down!

What is bad is bad.

Just the disruption caused by that singular act is already telling on Nigerians in terms of availability of cooking gas. Many homes aren't able to cook for their children and families, even those in the business of restaurants are having it difficult to operate! But that's not a lesson for you.

Continue!
Nobody is denying Dangote s huge impact in industrialising the country. Not even the engineers that were sacked. Everyone appreciates him because he is the largest employer of labour. But since you're not in the shoes of those staffs, you don't have the right the condemn them. Every work place has a standard. The refinery is a place with high risks and alot of hazard which affects workers health daily. Imagine working day and night trying to ensure Nigeria has sufficient fuel yet you're dying slowly. From direct source working there, I can confirm, they're not even given PPEs, hazard allowances or good HMO, those are basics for a company that has high risk. Maybe some of you have never worked in a place like that before, I advise you to seek knowledge rather than judge out of ignorance.

Again Dangote has done well truly, but he should consider the health and wellbeing of his staffs that worked hard day/night to ensure the refinery keeps working. Also Dangote said they workers were not sacked because of unionism rather because of sabotage. All Nigerian Engineers became saboteurs over night huh Let's have constructive thinking and assume alot of possibilities instead of condemning what we don't know.
Re: Dangote Refinery, Engineers On Warpath Over Fresh Redeployment (Photo) by Babalegba(m): 5:39pm On Oct 09, 2025
obitrac:
can you imagine what a fellow Nigerian is saying.can we call this jealousy or wickedness
The entitled pengassan and the engineers are the wicked ones.They want parity with their western counterlparts even though the cost of living is not the same.A flat in London is about three million naira per month but far less in Nigeria.
The federal government has been paying them exorbitant salaries for decades without the citizens enjoying any petrol. Saboteurs
I hope that Dangote get the balls to sack all of them, replace them with Chinese and indians and get his crude oil from abroad to bypass the knuckleheads altogether .
They've caused the price of cooking gas to skyrocket due to their unpatriotic squirreling ways
Re: Dangote Refinery, Engineers On Warpath Over Fresh Redeployment (Photo) by kafeii123: 5:48pm On Oct 09, 2025
He wants to waste their time. People who were trained as refinery engineers now getting posted to cement and sugar. I'm sure he won't sponsor any training for them there either.

Those of them with sense shd just resign and japa
Re: Dangote Refinery, Engineers On Warpath Over Fresh Redeployment (Photo) by adekolaelect(m): 6:03pm On Oct 09, 2025
iceking4:
Now you're lying on behave of the company, the company said they're not against staffs joining the union. The insisted it's because of sabotage.
Can you please tell Nigerians how 800+ workers decided to sabotage a company many of them built overnight huh
Dangote himself came to the media and praised them to be better staffs than the Indians, how comes they became saboteurs few days later.


This is the last time I will reply all you paid actors! Continue what you're doing, but just remember life is like a swinging pendulum ball.
Cheers
Stop reacting sentimentally . The priority of a company is to make proffits and remain in the business . Staffs are like parasite if they failed to comply with rule and regulations that gives them opportunity to serve . They joint the unions not for the organizational Success but for their own personal interest . Are you now saying Dangote should Risk his company and investment BCS of his Staffs that can leave the company at anytime to pursue their personal ambition without looking back what will be of the company . Oga private companies are not established to just greate employment for the staff satisfactions but to remain in business and make proffits. It is far far Good and better for a company to lose her staffs than to lose itself in the name of Staffs wellfair that can never be achieved.
Re: Dangote Refinery, Engineers On Warpath Over Fresh Redeployment (Photo) by gtassure: 6:26pm On Oct 09, 2025
U09ce:
Up till now, the Dangote Refinery has not told Nigerians the 'sabotage' 800 Nigerians did. If people want to commit such a criminal act, why would they need up to 800 people? These guys are just been victimized and unfortunately even the custodians of the Nigerian laws have shoved them aside.
I think this event has nothing to do with sabotage. The bottomline here is, Dangote refinery has many enemies and he doesn't trust Nigerians not to do their bidding!
Re: Dangote Refinery, Engineers On Warpath Over Fresh Redeployment (Photo) by grandstar(m): 6:40pm On Oct 09, 2025
Dangote paying his engineers 400k a month is a crime against humanity if true.

No wonder they joined the union.

It is when rival refineries such as that of Bua commence operations will he then feel the need to pay them far better, lest they post these guys.
Re: Dangote Refinery, Engineers On Warpath Over Fresh Redeployment (Photo) by iceking4(m): 6:57pm On Oct 09, 2025
adekolaelect:
Stop reacting sentimentally . The priority of a company is to make proffits and remain in the business . Staffs are like parasite if they failed to comply with rule and regulations that gives them opportunity to serve . They joint the unions not for the organizational Success but for their own personal interest . Are you now saying Dangote should Risk his company and investment BCS of his Staffs that can leave the company at anytime to pursue their personal ambition without looking back what will be of the company . Oga private companies are not established to just greate employment for the staff satisfactions but to remain in business and make proffits. It is far far Good and better for a company to lose her staffs than to lose itself in the name of Staffs wellfair that can never be achieved.
Again what rules did they break ? Is the company against union (the company said NO) , SO tell Nigerians exactly what they're offense is. Is it too hard to point out what 800+ people did at the same time 😕, even though you claimed they were better than the expatiates.

You can keep defending lies, it's you that is sentimental, I will be the first to support Dangote if he actually states why 800,+ of my countrymen are called sabotage. How would you know they were greedy when they've not even made any demands from the company
Re: Dangote Refinery, Engineers On Warpath Over Fresh Redeployment (Photo) by Metrofox(m): 8:03pm On Oct 09, 2025
Gotocourt:
How can PAYE be morethan PENSIONS, I just can't wrap my head around it 🤷🏿


Someone that knows some of them should kindly advise them to Japa. Use the company gained experience as a stepping stone
Japa to where? hw many refineries have open spots outside the country
Re: Dangote Refinery, Engineers On Warpath Over Fresh Redeployment (Photo) by Kukutente23: 8:26pm On Oct 09, 2025
hotseat:
The affected workers have suddenly come to the sad and stark realization that they have been tricked by PENGASSAN and have now been left in the lurch.

I would advise them to seek employment with PENGASSAN or NUPENG, if they so wish.

They forgot that they became petrochemical engineers, in the first place, courtesy of the large-heartedness of Dangote who they sought to sabotage due to bad advice and mindless greed.

The proverb that says "a bird in hand is worth two in the bush" is now staring them in the face.

They should be contented and thankful that they are still receiving their salaries as we speak.

They are now at the mercy of Dangote in deciding what lies ahead for them.

Had I known is always at last!


Ntoor!!!



@hotseat
You become an engineer by bagging a degree and registering not by working for Dangote
Such blistering ignorance!!
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